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North of Jalisco will be a priority for vaccination against influenza
The health secretary said that the biological apply to elderly and children under one year.
Mon, 18/10/2010 - 13:35
Guadalajara .- The municipalities of the northern part of Jalisco will be the first where the vaccine to protect against seasonal flu and H3N2 influenza A-H1N1, confirmed the health secretary, Alfonso Petersen Farah.
"The purpose is to serve first those municipalities where the temperatures tend to drop more or where winter comes early," he argued. Once you get all the fractions for Jalisco, vaccination will be extended to the rest of the state.
Petersen Farah Jalisco recalled that seeks to apply 570 000 doses of influenza vaccine in risk groups, which include a single dose, protection against three influenza viruses.
Endorsed the implementation of the first vaccines "will surely be this week, once they meet" different administrative mechanisms and health standards that we must observe, "to release the biological.
"These vaccines will apply the main risk groups are older adults and children under one year of age, of course be distributed in different health units once they are released," he said.
He added that for winter 2010-2011 is expected "an infinitely more positive scenario than the one held last year, because H3N2 is a strain that has circulated in the past."
Maricarmen Rello
North of Jalisco will be a priority for vaccination against influenza
The health secretary said that the biological apply to elderly and children under one year.
Mon, 18/10/2010 - 13:35
Guadalajara .- The municipalities of the northern part of Jalisco will be the first where the vaccine to protect against seasonal flu and H3N2 influenza A-H1N1, confirmed the health secretary, Alfonso Petersen Farah.
"The purpose is to serve first those municipalities where the temperatures tend to drop more or where winter comes early," he argued. Once you get all the fractions for Jalisco, vaccination will be extended to the rest of the state.
Petersen Farah Jalisco recalled that seeks to apply 570 000 doses of influenza vaccine in risk groups, which include a single dose, protection against three influenza viruses.
Endorsed the implementation of the first vaccines "will surely be this week, once they meet" different administrative mechanisms and health standards that we must observe, "to release the biological.
"These vaccines will apply the main risk groups are older adults and children under one year of age, of course be distributed in different health units once they are released," he said.
He added that for winter 2010-2011 is expected "an infinitely more positive scenario than the one held last year, because H3N2 is a strain that has circulated in the past."
Maricarmen Rello